Johnnesha Brown was a 23-year-old Black woman shot on the night of November 4, 2014, in northeast Omaha. Around 9 p.m., gunfire erupted near 45th Street and Grand Avenue while she and her boyfriend, Stephen Arps, sat in a car outside her childhood home. Both were found with gunshot wounds; Brown was taken to CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center and died that night. Arps was hospitalized and died later that week.

Family, neighbors, and community groups held vigils and pushed for answers, with Brown’s father, Johnnie Wofford, working with Crime Stoppers and placing a billboard offering a reward. In July 2015, investigators charged 24-year-old Akeem Jones with two counts of first-degree murder and later charged John Jones as an accessory. At an August 2015 preliminary hearing, prosecutors said the shooter may have been aiming for someone else tied to a gang dispute, and the judge found sufficient evidence to send the case to trial. Brown’s relatives described her as hardworking and funny; they kept her memory visible while awaiting further court action.

Did anyone in the neighborhood at the time see or hear anything that night?